Mysore: As many as 60 cancer patients, who have been availing the critical radiation therapy treatment for various forms of killer cancer disease at Radiation, Oncology and Cancer Unit in the State-run K.R. Hospital, are not receiving any treatment. Reason: The radiation machine installed at the Hospital is under repair since the last 10 days….
NDA nominates Om Birla for Lok Sabha Speaker’s post
June 18, 2019New Delhi: Two-time BJP MP from Rajasthan Om Birla will be the new Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha after he was nominated by the ruling NDA for the post. Birla has been a three-time MLA in the Rajasthan Assembly and represents the Kota-Boondi constituency. Birla (57), is a commerce post-graduate educated at the Government…
Multi-Speciality Kamakshi Hospital opens
June 18, 2019Mysore: The Multi-Speciality Kamakshi Hospital, J.P. Nagar, threw open its doors to the public yesterday. Avadootha Datta Peetham’s Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji and Suttur Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji inaugurated the hospital. Later, speaking at the stage programme, Suttur Seer said everyone was aware that this was a common man’s hospital. Kamakshi Hospital in Saraswathipuram…
Seers bat for doctors’ protection
June 18, 2019Mysuru: Both Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji and Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji came out in strong support of the striking doctors, who had called for a nationwide protest yesterday. They were speaking after inaugurating the Multi-Speciality Kamakshi Hospital, J.P. Nagar and strongly felt that the doctors’ lives are as important as the patients and the assault…
Act to be amended to curb ponzi firms
June 18, 2019Bengaluru: With the IMA (I Monetary Advisory) Jewels scam, in which thousands of investors have lost huge sums of money they had deposited with the firm, hitting the national headlines, the State Government has decided to make an amendment to the existing Act to curb ponzi and fly-by-night companies, which lure gullible investors. The Karnataka…
MLA C.T. Ravi lauds Shenoi family
June 18, 2019Mysuru: Chikkamagalur MLA C.T. Ravi began his address with a quotation from Purandaradasa’s keerthana “Kereya Neerannu Kerege Chelli Varava Padedavaranthe Kaniro,” alluding to the service-mindedness of B. Madhava Shenoi family. He was speaking during the inauguration of Kamakshi Hospital, J.P. Nagar and said that the Shenoi family ploughing back their earnings to the society is…
Panel moots Govt. job for SC/ST intercaste married couples
June 18, 2019Mysore; The Karnataka Legislative Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) recently decided to recommend the State Government to offer Government jobs to one of the spouses in an inter-caste marriage involving SC or ST people. The Committee Chairman H.K. Kumaraswamy, who chaired a review meeting of SC/ST programmes in Mysuru district at the…
MCC has spent funds as per Govt. guidelines: Mayor
June 18, 2019Mysuru: City Mayor Pushpalatha Jagannath has refuted MP Pratap Simha’s claims that Government guidelines have not been followed in the spending of funds by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and that there was discrimination in the MCC’s allotment of funds. Addressing a press meet at her office here recently, Pushpalatha Jagannath maintained that there was…
MLA Ramdas undertakes ‘Janaspandana Yatre’ in Ward 47
June 18, 2019Performs Guddali Puja for road-widening works Mysuru: To get a first-hand information from the residents on civic problems, KR Constituency MLA S.A. Ramdas undertook a ‘Janaspandana Yatre’ yesterday in Ward 47 covering Kuvempunagar and Saraswathipuram. The MLA was accompanied by officials of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Company (CESC), Slum Board, Mysuru…
Attack on Dalit in Gundlupet: Police asked to book suspended cops under SC/ST Act
June 18, 2019Mysuru: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes Vice-Chairman I. Murugan on Monday asked the Chamarajanagar District Police to register a case under Section 4 of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against the two Policemen who have been suspended in connection with the case of atrocity against a dalit youth in Gundlupet taluk recently. The…













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